The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-12-07
MANNING CLARENDON COUNTY, S. c., WEDNESDAY, DEC

MING, CLARENDON
Dubcse favored, and AIessrs. King an
Bird opposed Ii.
Arguments were made for the bill b
Messrs. Bigham and Norton, OF Marion
! Wilson, Of Sumter, and Dubose an
Aershaw, of Darlington, and against
! by AIessrs. Bird and King, of Darling
ton, and Chandler, OF Williamsburg
This exhausted the local discussion. Th
only two outsiders who took part wer
Or. Pope. OF Newberry, who favored tn
bill, and Ccl. Thomas, of Richland, wh'
opposed it. AboHs two hours Were con
sumed in the debase.
4 ~ote was t1en taken on the motion
to strike out the enacting words OF TIT
bill, ard re>ulted-:eas -, nays 50.
Mr.. Chandler, OF Williamsburg. mad;
an attempt TO get Williamsburg ''takel
out OF toe bill, but it tailed on a di
vision-53 to 40-an6 the work O.
amending commenced. \ good deal O
entanglng parliamentary practice wa:
involved in amending the bill, in conse
quence of the radical character OF The
proposed amendments to the bill undel
Consideration and the fact that thest
were not printed.
\ motion was made to adjourn the
debate and print the amendments, but
the House refused to do so. 4 provision
was inserted naming Florence as the
county seat, provided the town will
t..rriSh ali the county buildings, with al
additional prov!so that il one hundred
freeholders of the new county shall OBJ
jecs then an election shall be held to de-
termine the county seat. The new coun-
ty is to be attached to the 9th Congress
sional district and the 4th judicial cir
cult. The apportionment of representa-
tion in the Legislature is made as fol
lows: Florence ,, and Marion, Williams
burg and Darlington ) each.
After finishing the amendments q mo-
ton TO table motion to reconsider the
tie vote was adopted. The bill has since
had its third reading and gone to the
Senate.
THE SALE OF SEED COTTON.
The bill to regulate the traffic in seed
cotton il the county Of Abbeville at
tracsed some attention. The bill pro-
hipits traffic in seed cotton without the
payment of license fee of $500. As soon
as the bill was read a dozen members
were on their feet desiring to ''get into"
the bill. The following counties We're
added: Sumter, Union, York, Charles
ton, Berkeley, Richland, Edgeield, her-
shaw, Orangeburg and Chester. The
price of license iu Charleston and Berke-
ley was fixed at $50. The penalty for a
violation of the Act is SlG0 ine and one
years imprisonment The licenses are
to be issued between the 10Th OF August
and 18th OF December.
AMENDING TIE CRIMINAL LAW.
The House spent ile greater part of
three days in discussing the blu to amend
the criminal law. Its object is to SIM
plify the iorms of Indictment, etc, so
that the loopholes for criminals to es-
c..pe, by reason of faulty indictments
and through other mere technicait5es,
should be, as nearly as practicable, re-
moved. The bill was finally passed-but
not without numerous amendments.
PENSIONS FoH SOLDIERS.
The Senate bill to give 3 pension of
s. month to disabled soldiers OF the
Confederate army, now resident IL this
State, passed the Senate without any
trouble. The only amendments adopted
were to perfect details. The pension is
to be given to needy persons onl TO
those culy whose annua! income, from
all sources, is less than S259 year. As
q safeguard against imposition. each ap-
picant must furnish the affidavit of q
practicing physician, to show that he is
actually needy. The bill has already
received its third reading in the Senate
an3 been sent over to the House.
The Soldiers Home bill, introduced
By DR.. Pope, has passed its three read
ines il the House AID gone to the Senate.
oTHER MATTERS.
The bill Coy Mr.. Hudgens, of Ander-
SOM TO limit the rite Of interest to seven
per cent. was killed in the House by q
vote Of IS to 81.
The bill to require the Governor to
appoint one and the same person county
auditor and treasurer mas killed Ii the
Senate.
A bill to abolish the Office Of Master
was killed without discussion, and bill
to reduce the salaries of all State officers
and clerks was killed by vote of II to
%, after speech in its favor by Senator
Talbe1t.
Senator McMaster's bill to make the
term of ofice of the Superintendent OF
Elpcation four years was killed after a
stsorg speech by the originator.
The engraving of Washington recently
restored to the State by Gen. Belknap
will be hung in the hall OF the House Of
Representatives. It is also probable that
the Hampton portrait, b:7 Guerry, pre-
sented to the State by the United States
Senators, Will be nung in the hall as
companion picture to the Gordon por'
trait.
Among the bills introduced were the
following:
BY Senator Byrd, to establish a new
county from portions of Marion, VII
hamsourg, Clarendon, Sumter and Oar
Grgton counties, to be known as Bee
County,